Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Cognitive Interview, Eyewitness Identification, Eyewitness Testimony
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In real world situations, encoding is focused on comprehending rather than remembering. Memory is often reconstruction rather than simple retrieval. Serves us usually really well because what matters is usually the meaning, not the exact wording. Retroactive-difficulty recalling earlier things due to interference from later things. Proactive-difficulty recalling later things due to interference from earlier things. Meaning is a function of both the input and the activated knowledge. Comprehension is an active not passive process. Depends on what you already know, combination of what you know and the new information. Understanding consists of constructing an integrated representation. Too much potentially relevant knowledge that could be activated! But we are able to understand complex situations with little effort. Contains one"s knowledge of the sequences of events that usually occurs in a situation. Encodes information about a particular type of situation rather than one specific situation. Structured to include information on relations between knowledge.